Mr. John Melvin:

I am possibly only appending to what Ms MacEvilly said. Essentially, it is an infrastructural question. While Great Britain is well supplied by many different supply routes at two points onshore in Scotland, the two pipelines are located adjacent to one another with two different compressor stations. The two pipelines for some parts of the sub-sea route are quite close to one another and in other areas of the sub-sea route they are distant form one another. They have two different landfalls in Ireland. It is an infrastructural question in terms of European legislation. Prior to the United Kingdom leaving the EU, Ireland could satisfy this requirement on what was called a regional basis in accordance with European mandated co-operation between entities. Given that the UK is no longer in the EU, that regional approach is not available to us through the EU structures. It is primarily an infrastructural question. Is there sufficient infrastructure there? If there was an incident that affected both of those pipelines, it could take a significant number of days to repair. That raises the question of the number of days that would involve and how would we supply natural gas to keep the economy going in the meantime.